What’s Your Marketing Strategy for ’14? See What Other Marketers Are Saying

As the year gets under way, we are all completing our plans and strategies for the upcoming year. Last fall, ExactTarget completed a survey of over 2,500 marketing executives who gave their insights on what they will be doing this year.  You can download the full report.

The main takeaways are:

  • Increasing conversion rates
  • Improving brand awareness
  • Collecting, measuring and using behavior-based data

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Other points of interests:

  • Acquiring and developing strong relationships with new potentials.
  • Email is not dead, on the contrary, it will be a core driver in ’14.
  • Responsive websites will be the norm moving forward.
  • Mobile is big – there are now more mobile devices connected than there are people in the world.

The key is to develop a strategy, implement it and evaluate it. If some things are doing well, try something else. Make sure you use both the traditional, as well as some of the newer digital options in your mix.

Hope you have a great 2014.

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Why Page One On Organic Searches Are So Important

We all want to come up on page one of Google, Yahoo, Bing and all the other search engines. There’s a good reason that we need to strive for that. According to a recent article in emarketer data from an icrossing study shows only a small amount of people go beyond the first page.

US Natural Search Visits from Google, Yahoo! and Bing, by Search Engine Results Page, Q2-Q4 2009 (% of total in each group)

Across the big three search engines, 95% of traffic came from first page results. That should make us all sit up and take notice. If you haven’t taken search seriously, maybe now would be a good time to do so. Don’t do all the hard work and have less than positive results because you’ve not taken organic search seriously.

A report from Econsultancy and ExactTarget indicated search spending would increase…nearly two-thirds of the marketers interviewed said they plan on increasing spending in this area.

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